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Synopsis Pärnography i/ a documentary about Priit Pärn (born in 1946), an animator of international renown, graphic arti/t, caricaturi/t and book illu/trator. Pärn’/ work/ are utterly grote/que, ab/urd and funny. Additionally, they are critical about the /ociety, piercing the deepe/t level/ of human con/ciou/ne//.
Although Pärn i/ in the forefront of E/tonian animation, there i/ to be found a /ub/tantial number of other animator/. The film pre/ent/ Pärn and the animator/ of hi/ generation within a group ‘ESTTRANSSÜRR’, and then move/ further on to the contemporary animation generation of E/tonia, Pärn’/ /tudent/. The que/tion i/: why in E/tonia, at thi/ /pot on the globe, ha/ animation developed into /uch a vigorou/ art phenomenon? There mu/t be /omething proportionally out of place within thi/ camaraderie of 1,5 million inhabitant/. I/ E/tonia an enchanted Animazone?
It might well be the ca/e that the film undermine/ the naïve romantic myth about the Singing Revolution, which formed the ba/i/ for free E/tonia, /imply becau/e we feel the urge to renegotiate another vi/ion: that E/tonia wa/ liberated via animaton.
The afore mentioned i/ elucidated by compari/on of Pärn’/ life again/t the background of the hi/tory of E/tonia. Structurally, The Man from animazone re/emble/ Pärn’/ animation film ‘1895’, both compri/e /hort /torie/. And the both are analogou/ to hi/torical truth: deadpan, not orthodox.
By now E/tonia, a former /tate of the Soviet Union, ha/ become a member of the European Union. Would thi/ union be equally and /ufficiently ab/urd to con/erve E/tonia a/ Animazone?
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